@B6: How far down the road is official SLI support?

[Stublerone]

Just what I wanted to say. A single card can run it, too. Just be aware, that vram can get a bigger issue. So it is n1 to have them.

By the way: BigC: What is your card consuming in terms of vram. Does it get hick ups sometimes due to the small memory? This should be the case, as your setup should easily consume about 2,5GB vram. When you have hick ups, how big are they or how do they look like practically. Just for my information.

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

I just say to everyone asking me: Warning! Shit idea with sli!!!Warning!!!

Nobody was asking you...

You are the guy who jumped into the SLI request thread to tell us our gear is shit... Obvious you are just trying to start a fight. Too bad the moderators are cool with this kind of behavior.

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by von Pilsner

Luthier said it was working a long time ago so I think that politely asking for SLI support is within reason.

If you think having a SLI setup is 'wrong' or 'bad' here is why I have an SLI system.

I purchased a SLI capable MB because I enjoy triple screen gaming. FLight sims and racing sims are very nice with super wide fov and trackIR. I am not rich so I build my system a piece at a time.

I don't want to keep using softth (as great as it is) because I want a hardware solution (nVidia 2D surround is what I'm shooting for [requires SLI] - just need 1 more monitor [or 3 new ones possibly ]). MatroxTH2GO had more limitations than just buying a 2nd card. As I understand it the super multimonitor nvidia cards are 2 GPUS in SLI mode on one card so I am not left with many options...

So there are valid reasons for SLI setups (even if you enjoy flight sims).

Cheers

Sure, i'm not saying it's wrong or bad. What i was trying to point out is that it has been historically troublesome to implement properly in our gaming genre, so i'm not willing to purchase a setup with a history of under-utilization, unless i have no other choice.

Like your example illustrates, gaming on multiple monitors with specific cards may be one of those "no other choice" cases obviously and nobody can blame you for going with it.
For single screen setups however, i feel like setting myself up for trouble if i decided to go for SLI and will always prefer a single card.

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt

Sure, i'm not saying it's wrong or bad. What i was trying to point out is that it has been historically troublesome to implement properly in our gaming genre, so i'm not willing to purchase a setup with a history of under-utilization, unless i have no other choice.

Like your example illustrates, gaming on multiple monitors with specific cards may be one of those "no other choice" cases obviously and nobody can blame you for going with it.
For single screen setups however, i feel like setting myself up for trouble if i decided to go for SLI and will always prefer a single card.

I agree with that, more complexity = more potential problems.

But when you are in microcenter with a bit of $$ in your pocket and you already have an SLI capable MB things are bound to happen...

Getting great frame rates in most of the games I enjoy is a nice side-effect.

[335th_GRAthos]

SLI is for sure the only reasonable way to handle "three monitor view" = three times the standard single monitor view = three times more pixels than a single monitor.
Unfortunately not there yet with CoD but I still hope...

Three screens, pffft!


These were the setups when real men used to fly flight sims!




PS. This was probably FS_Phat's room in his young age...

~S~